Machine for making wire fences



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J. COLLIER. MACHINE FOR MAKING WIRE FENCES.

Patented July 26, 1887.

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J. W. COLLIER. MAGHINE FOR MAKING WIRE FENCES.

Patented July 26,1887.

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UNITED ST TES PATENT OFFICE.

' JACOB w. COLLIER, or PARIS, ILLINOIS.

MACHINE FOR MAKING WIRE FENCES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 367,092, dated July 26, 1887.

Application filed April 2, 1887.

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Making Fences; and I do declare the following to be a-full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention has relation to improvements in machines for making fences; and it consists in the novel construction and combination of its parts, hereinafter fully explained, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my machine at work building a fence. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the bar and sleeves in which the sprocketwheels aresecured. Fig. 3 is an edge view of my tension'post. Fig. 4 is a face View of one of the sprocket-wheels. Fig. 5 is a sectional Figs. 6 and 7 are detail views.

My invention is described as follows: A. represents an upright bar having arms a a, foot a, and wheel a, journaled in said foot. To the rear face of said bar A are secured three broken sleeves,b,leaving an opening,b,through each sleeve, the purpose of which is hereinafter described. The sprocket-wheels O are made in two pieces, the front pieces, 0, having around their periphery a series of teeth, 0, and have in their edges two slots, 0, one being exactly opposite the other. These slots are cut so deep that the bottoms thereof are inside or beyond the inner face of the sleeves I). These sprocket wheels are provided with necks c, which fit exactly in the sleeves b,and are just as long as the said sleeves are deep. To the outer end of the said necks are secured circular plates 0 by means of a bolt, 0 which passes through the center of said sprocketwheels and through the center of said plates. Said plates 0" are also provided with slots 0", 'whichare exactly opposite and correspond with the slots 0 in the said sprocket-wheels. The said bar A is provided with a slot, D, in

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which works an axle, d, on thejournal end of I which is j ournaled a spool, d. The said axle d has a shoulder, d", from which point its tenon end is made flat to fit in the said slot D, and on the outer end of said part is a thumb-screw, 61 by means of which the'said shoulder d can be drawn up against the face of the said bar A, and the said axle made secure at any point in said slot D, while the spool d is allowed to turn freely on the journal end of said axle. To the rear face of the upper sprocket-wheel is rigidly secured a winding arm, E. A sprocket chain, F, passes round the upper sprocket-wheel, against the rear edge of the second sprocket-wheel, and around the lower sprocket-wheel, and against the spool d. This sprocket-chain can be made to work looseror tighter on the sprocket-wheels by moving the axle cl, which bears the spool (1, up or down in the said slot D. The tension-post G consists of the main post side bars, 9, which fit against the rear and front faces of the said post, and are nearly as long, and of the springs 9 which fit against the front face of the front side bar, 9 and of the nuts and bolts 9, which hold them all together. My machine may be pro vided with more sprocket-wheels than above shown.

In constructing a fence Iestablish a main post, H. To this I secure three pairs of wires, h h h, which I stretch out andsecure to the tension-post G. The tension-post may be sooured to the ground by ropes or by any known means. These wires are secured to the said post by passing one between the rear face of the post g and the bar 9 and above the bolts If, allowing them to rest on said bolts, so that they will not slip down, and the other between the front face of the said post and the front bar, 9 and allowing them to rest on the said bolts so that they will not slip down, and they are tightened, so that they will not slip by screwing down the nuts on said bolts.

I then put my machine in position as seen in Fig. 1, and I turn one of the side slots, 0 in each of the sprocket-wheels O, and pass one of the wires in the pairs h, If, and h through openings 1) of the sleeves 1), into the said slots 0 and c, then turn the said sprocket-wheels until the said slots bring the said wiresto the rear, as seen in the position marked at i, Fig. 1. Then I put the other wires into the opposite slots, as shown at 1' Then I pass my sprocket-chain around the said wheels and spool, as above described, and hook it in position. My machine is now ready to work.

I turn the handle E, and thus give the sprocket-wheels one or two revolutions, as I may see proper. This produces a twist in said wires, as shown at 7. and secures the palings L in place. The machine is then moved forward to make room for another paling, and I again revolve the sprocket-wheels in the other direction, and give the wire another twist or two, securing another paling in place, and so on until my fence is complete.

Under the lower end of the bar A is a straight board, which gives an even surface for the wheel a. to run on, and at the same time forms a guide for the lower ends of the palings L, thus producing a straight line of the wires, and sets the palings at a uniform distance from the ground, adding much to the appearance of the fence and some to its durability.

My sprocket-chain F may be made in one piece and put on the machine before it is applied to the fence, and the pairs of wire h, 71?, and it may be passed through the said slots 0 and c" and then secured to the tension-post G. Either mode is practicable; but when I have the chain so that I can take it off I can quit work at any time, leave my wires attached to the posts, take my machine away, and put in under shelter. 1 deem this an important ad vantage.

I am aware of the United States patent issued to E. M. Cooper, January 11, 1887, (machine for making wire fences) which shows a machine having sprocketwheels journaled in a wooden frame and operated by a sprocketchain, and so I do not claim the chain and sprocket-whcels, broadly; but

\Vhat Ido claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A machine for making fences, consisting of the bar A, having arms a. (1,, foot (1?, wheel a, journaled therein, sleeves 11, secured to said bar and havi n g the openings b,sprocket-wheels 0, having the teeth 0 around their periphery, necks c", and rear plates, 0, secured to said sprocket-wheels, each of said sprocket-wheels having in its front face slots 0 and in its rear plates slots 0, said sprocket-wheels being journalcd in said sleeves b, and the spool d, work ing on the journal end of the axle d, axle (I, having the shoulder d its tenon end working in slot D of said bar A, and thumb-screw d, working on said-axle and adapted to hold the same rigidly in place, and sprocket-chain F, working around said sprocket -wheels and against the said spool, substantially as shown and described, and for the purposes set forth.

2. In a machine for making fences, as above described, the bar A, having the arms a a, foot a, wheel a journalcd in said foot, sleeves I), having the openings Z), and sprockctwheels C, jonrnaled in said sleeves,substantially as shown and described.

8. In a machine for making fences, as above described, the sprocket-wheels 0, each having around its periphery the teeth 0, and having the neck 0" and rear plate, 0', attached thereto by a bolt, 0, and having in the edges of the front and rear plates, respectively, diametrically-opposite slots, 0" and c, substantially as shown and described.

4-. In a machine for making fences, as above described, the tension-post G, consisting of a main post, 1/, the side bars, g, fitting against the front and rear sides of said main post, and the springs fitting against the front face of one of the side bars, and being held together by bolts and nuts 9, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JACOB IV. COLLIER.

\Vitnesses:

(Inns. W. CURTIS, A. ll. HEMPHILL. 

